Which came first, the mind or the idea of the mind? Have you never wondered? They arrived together. The mind is an idea.

- Bernard Beckett

Thought, like any parasite, cannot exist without a compliant host.

- Bernard Beckett

I respond well to what I read of Immanuel Kants idea that the world as we see it is absolutely a function of the way our brain works. In the modern p…

- Bernard Beckett

Superstition is the need to view the world in terms of simple cause and effect.

- Bernard Beckett

This is always the problem with building heroes. To keep them pure, we must build them stupid. The world is built on compromise and uncertainty, and …

- Bernard Beckett

A society that fears knowledge is a society that fears itself.

- Bernard Beckett

In the end, living is defined by dying. Book-ended by oblivion, we are caught in the vice of terror, squeezed to bursting by the approaching end. Fea…

- Bernard Beckett

Science is a little bit more than a wonderful way of modelling and predicting; its a wonderful technical abstraction. I think science is a really won…

- Bernard Beckett

In this environment it was a simple matter for The Republic to maintain its structure. People did as they were told because they were working togethe…

- Bernard Beckett